Edit: And since you mentioned Expertise.....Exp is not threat generation. Wake up, it's not WotLK, wake up mindless noob tanks. Exp, for DKs and druids is their survival. Missed your DS? Missed your mitigation. Died. Any DK without 24-26 exp is open for DS miss-spree of 4-6 hits. And that's fatal. I cant count how many times I was at 1-5% health after a serious nukeburst from a boss\unCCed mobs. And any tank can get such burst(mitigated with other means, tho). And when the next second I find myself at half of my health, with decent bubble - healers say: "wow!". This is the proper Death Strike. Not stacking a 16k bubble at full health.

Comment by MakaPL

Expertise reduces Your chance to be dodged or parried which is Your attack HIT and You generate THREAT. lawl. Such a "pr0" tank and can't understand how it even work.

Comment by Stomped

It steals your skull.

Comment by unferth

I am so dam sick of seeing people complain that every single piece of gear in the game is not perfectly optimized for Death Knights.

Death Knights are truly the new Huntards, even this far into Cataclysm.

Comment by Wirxaw

Oh calm down ladies. MakaPL, if you like to read by syllables - try to read to the end next time. Also, Blizzard has made threat generation a child's play. Spam your Hammer\Devastate\Rune Strike\Mangle. Missed? Do it again! Need burst threat? Pop a CD. Exp is not neccessarily needed for actual threat. And due to fair number of items with passive exp, you can get at least 15 exp completely reforging it. What I said was that DKs and Druids HAVE TO HIT their target with either Death Strike, or critical strikes, to get their mitigation. For a DK, missed DS means missed block, means not enough survivability. For a Druid, missed crit is not a crit, less uptime of mitigation. I played whole 4.x on both Blood and Feral tanks, so I can stand for my words.

Unferth - judging by your reply to highwind123, you are a Ret Paladin. Do you understand that you stand in line with Huntards? That your spec is despised not less? And who are you to judge DKs, who appeared long after all your Ret-Huntard QQs started? If you read my comments, or use your mind, whatever is easier for you, you will find out, that the only 2 weapons that Blood DKs can use are This Axe, and Sulfuras, with latter being BiS for 3 60stamina sockets. Why so? Only these 2 weapons are 378 and have mastery. Even more, crit from Sulfuras is still better than haste, as crit is naturally burst. We no longer have an Akirus, mastery+exp weapon that we can get on the first boss-kill. So when all you Rets and other twohander *!@# will roll on their BiS', we WILL have to prove that some weapons are our only choice. If it makes us Huntards - go take a look at Fandral's Flamescythe comments.

And thanks, Kdbarker, at least you got my point.

Comment by WTBaggrodump

All I can say is... It's stats would suck bawls on a Fury or Arms warrior. Mastery isn't soooo bad, but haste? Ugh.

However, you have to hand it to the art department; they made this axe look beastly.

Comment by Theorw

I got this on our 1st boss kill on Wed.Was the 1st player to get it since we killed Shanoxx 1st on whole server xDBiS before ragnaros for 2H DK(lucky warriors didnt roll and the other dk was DW )

Comment by Funkyjunky

Lucky for me the ret rolled a 26 =D

Comment by Dredmon

LOL ret paladins...

Comment by xlink64

Does this thing seem kinda small for a GREATaxe to anyone else? Pretty sure the 1H obsidium cleavers are about as big as this thing =p

Comment by Ineluki

Got this last night after the reset and just wanted to say that the Landslide enchant really complements the looks of the axe nicely. It's almost as though the enchant was designed with this axe in mind.

Comment by Mookosh

Ugh, sucks that Arms doesn't get a properly itemized weapon from Firelands until Rag

Comment by scyther250

With the recent theorycrafting that haste is Ret's second best stat after mastery, this axe becomes quite attractive.

Comment by Nerdstomper

nice looking one i can say :o

Comment by Bonkura

Seems like the perfect weapon for Ret Pala. Haste slows down cooldowns on abilities and mastery adding more damage to said abilities. Will definitely be what I'll be hoping for the most out of the drops now when starting raiding Firelands.

Comment by Shotbydalonewolf

I'm a paladin who won this tonight, great paladin weapon! (25-m version)

Comment by WTBaggrodump

A nice weapon but for an Arms or Fury Warrior, the secondary stats are bad. Terrible even. I could understand if it were Crit/Haste or Mastery/Hit, but Mastery/Haste? Yuck. A friggin' great looking weapon, though.

P.S. You can always reforge the Haste to Crit or even Hit if you needed it that bad. If you're running around with a troll heroic weapon, this is a definite upgrade no matter you being an Arms or Fury Warrior. Strength, Damage > Secondary stats until you get into heroic modes imo.

Comment by kredian

All of my friends tell me it drops every week for them but ive never seen it drop once :( it would be a good replacement for my elementium deathblade